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POSSIBILITIES OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES IN ASSESSING CHRONIC VENOUS LEG ULCER
INES BALINT
; Dr. Ines Balint General Practice Clinic, Strmac Samoborski, Croatia
VJEKOSLAVA AMERL ŠAKIĆ
; Dr. Vjekoslava Amerl Šakić General Practice Clinic, Zagreb, Croatia
VESNA POTOČKI RUKAVINA
; Dr. Vesna Potočki Rukavina General Practice Clinic, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The attributes of general practitioner’s work are accessibility and continuity of health care, maintaining basic diagnostic procedures, productivity and eficiency. We deal with about 80% of health issues and monitor and evaluate our work as well. our health care is oriented toward community with the primary preventive and promoting concept, and we also have a role of "gatekeeper” in health care system, which leads to signiicant savings with better health care quality. Chronic venous leg ulcer assessment requires a well trained team in general practice. Prior to making decision on the course of treatment, it is essential to do ankle brachial index (ABI) which can help us determine whether the origin of ulcer is arterial or venous. There are only a few diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the acknowledged general practitioner’s domain: assessing chronic wound and folding, which cannot cover the complexity of responsible chronic wound assessment either in time normative or in its price. It is necessary to establish good education of general practitioners and enable prescribing elastic, compressive set, which is the gold standard in chronic wound treatment, as well as appropriately evaluate the general practice team that performs this mode of treatment.
Keywords
chronic wound; diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; savings
Hrčak ID:
148125
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Publication date:
8.11.2015.
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